A BID FOR SALVATION

While sifting through older comments, I found the following interesting one:

Anonymous said...

Why all the love for JH? As I've said publicly before, he is an annoying attention seeker who does everything for his own ego. He did not voluntarily stand down from power. He was forced to by the ACT constitution. There is a small item in the ACT constitution which states that no person can remain in the same committee position for more than three consecutive years. As JH became president in 2012, he was unable to continue as president past 2015. If you look closely, that's why most of the committee has changed.

From a historical perspective, I've been told by visiting ACT players that this rule was brought this in as when they became separate organisation from ASPA NSW they resented a certain NSW president who had been in the job forever and a day (and remained in power for a long time afterwards). From what ACT players have told me, this president was against ACT becoming their own separate organisation and wanted them to remain part of ASPA NSW.

It's an interesting part of the constitution, one that I don't think any other state has this.

SG from NSW

August 2, 2015 at 4:18 PM 

What attracted my attention was that part about setting a limit on the length of time for engaging an office. It might be a good recipe for the salvation of the decaying committee in Victoria, who are becoming too stagnant, thanks to the gang of four minus one. 

Would any Victorian member with some moral strength move a motion to set a specific limit on the number of years for continual engagement of positions? If anyone would be out there, go to GW for a seconder. Geoff would second any sensible motion!